9 d. ago Explore 'magical' Japanese gardens with bridges, lanterns and plants – all in Scotland

A Japanese-style garden located in Scotland has been hailed as a 'hidden gem' that boasts peaceful walks and stunning scenery - and it's just 36 miles outside of Edinburgh

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9 d. ago ‘The Salt Path gave us back our life’: walking back to happiness on Cornwall’s South West Coast Path

As a film of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path is released, we follow in her footsteps along the Cornish section‘I want to tell you something. I have a stage 4 brain tumour, and I don’t know how long I have left.” When fellow walker Peter utters these words to me at the Minack theatre in Porthcurno on Cornwall’s south coast, I half think he might be reading lines for a new play. Behind him, the waves are dancing, while mist swirls on the wind as though spooling from a smoke machine.It had only been an hour since I first met him and his wife, Michelle, as we all took shelter from the freezing wind in a hut at nearby Gwennap Head. I had asked why they were walking the South West Coast Path – the 630-mile (1,014km) trail that weaves its way from the seaside town of Minehead in Somerset around to Poole harbour in Dorset, via the windswept headlands, secluded coves and beaches of Devon and Cornwall. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'I'm walking 1,200 miles from Manchester to Ibiza in my flip

Henry Moores is raising money for a children's cancer charity

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1 week ago After 20 years, I thought I knew London – then I walked the Capital Ring

Spring in the air, and London is calling – not by Tube, but on foot. Jessica Furseth explores a 78-mile circular walking route and finds a surprisingly wild, wonderfully weird and deeply revealing way see London

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1 week ago Michael Watson’s next miracle? Walking a mile with the doctor who saved his life

Watson, who sustained a life-threatening brain injury in his 1991 loss to Chris Eubank, will walk a charity mile with Peter Hamlyn this week

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2 w. ago The People's Champion takes next inspirational step as Michael Watson set to walk miracle mile

BOXING CLEVER COLUMN: The People's Champion Michael Watson will take another inspirational step as he again takes to the road in the London Marathon

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3 w. ago Crocs' £60 'perfect travel sandals' are 'so comfy' shoppers can 'walk for miles'

Shoppers love Crocs' Brooklyn Woven Low Wedge shoes, which have been praised for being "so fashionable and comfortable"

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4 w. ago The one change that worked: I loathed all forms of exercise – until I moved to a big city and walked miles

I’d tried running, pilates, swimming and barre, and hated the lot. Then I moved to London and, having no money, I had to start walking to places. Shockingly, I enjoyed itI never understood people who enjoy high-intensity exercise. Wine – yes. Films – obviously. Model trains – whatever floats your boat. But exercise? I didn’t get it. I wept on reformer pilates machines and left circuits classes halfway through under the guise of going to the toilet. I went to the park with the intention of running and instead lay down in the grass with a Cornetto. I pleaded illness – and once, the death of a fictional pet – to waive class cancellation fees. Exercise just wasn’t for me.And it’s not as if I didn’t try. I attempted swimming and barre, power yoga and boxing – all of it hellish, not to mention inaccessibly expensive. When I walked past a certain glass-fronted gym near my flat, invariably with some sort of snack in my hand, I felt a pang of pity for the people inside – sweaty, muscled pris...

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